Canadian sentenced to death in China for drug smuggling

A Chinese court on Monday
sentenced a Canadian man to death for drug smuggling after
prosecutors said an original 15-year sentence, announced in
November, was too lenient.

Dalian Intermediate People's Court in the northeast province
of Liaoning retried Robert Lloyd Schellenberg and handed down
the death penalty, the court said in a brief statement on its
website.

The case is likely again to test relations between Beijing
and Ottawa, which have been tense since Canada's arrest of a
Chinese executive at the request of the United States in
December, followed by China's detention of two Canadian citizens
on suspicion of endangering state security.
(Reporting by Meg Shen and Twinnie Siu; Editing by Nick Macfie)